Do natural differences in acoustic signals really interfere in conspecific recognition in the pan-Amazonian frog Allobates femoralis ?

Behaviour

Volumn 148, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 485-500

  Erdtmann, Luciana K ^a   Simões, Pedro I ^a   Mello, Ana Carolina ^a   Lima, Albertina P ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Anura; contact zone; Dendrobatoidea; playback; species recognition

Indexed keywords

ANURA; EPIPEDOBATES FEMORALIS;

EID: 79957455493     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: 1568539X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/000579511X565754     Document Type: Article

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